Senior Staff Engineer, SoC RTL Design

We are looking for a Staff Digital Design Engineer to help define, build, and optimize high-performance IP and SoC architectures for next-gen AI and compute workloads. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance-aware design.

This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, or Austin. 

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• A digital design expert with a deep understanding of computer architecture and IP microarchitecture.
• Skilled in RTL development (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with full ASIC flows.
• Comfortable optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA) under aggressive design goals.
• A naturally collaborative and technical engineer — you thrive in spec definition, peer reviews, and team-wide planning.

What We Need

• Architecture and RTL implementation of Tenstorrent’s custom IP blocks and SoC components.
• Performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks.
• Occasional contributions to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows.
• Strong synthesis and timing closure awareness to support backend teams.
• Prior experience in on-chip fabric and interconnect designs is an asset.

What You Will Learn

• How cutting-edge AI chips are built, from spec to silicon.
• What it takes to collaborate with teams designing novel processor and memory architectures.
• How to blend custom logic with standard SoC elements for power and scale.
• How cross-functional workflows come together across design, DV, physical, and firmware teams.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.